doorbell
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Her chaotic entrance involved a twisted headphone cord, a doorbell, a food delivery and a barking dog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The court heard ring doorbell footage showed this was the second time that day the children were left inside the house.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The fridge camera can track your groceries, and the doorbell camera clears up any confusion around who might be at your door while you’re away.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
A gong and hammer function as a doorbell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The doorbell rang again, one urgent peal after another.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Reconsider your “smart” home: Cameras are becoming more and more common in home appliances, including in smart ovens, refrigerators, doorbells, and toothbrushes—even as people decry surveillance measures in public.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp wants to make it a requirement for officers to run images of suspects through facial recognition software, where they have been captured on CCTV, mobile phones or camera doorbells.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
It’s not a leap to imagine millions of coordinated video doorbells being used for a similar purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
"Ringing doorbells, knocking on doors, alerting the neighbours, telling them to leave -- that's what the situation was like," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Nothing radical, no hothead stuff, just ringing a few doorbells for Gene McCarthy, composing a few tedious, uninspired editorials for the campus newspaper.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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